Laws and Regulations Terms

  1. Katie Couric Clause

  2. Large Trader

  3. Legal Lending Limit

  4. Legal Rate Of Interest

  5. Legend

  6. Legislative Overkill

  7. Letter Of Comment

  8. Letters Patent

  9. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

  10. Limited Power Of Attorney - LPOA

  11. Liquidated Damages

  12. Listing Requirements

  13. Locked Market

  14. Loophole

  15. Loss Disallowance Rule - LDR

  16. Maintenance Margin

  17. Malfeasance

  18. Market Capitalization Rule

  19. Market Performance Committee

  20. Markets in Financial Instruments Directive - MiFID

  21. Master-Servant Rule

  22. Material Insider Information

  23. Mechanic's Lien

  24. Mineral Rights

  25. Minimum-Interest Rules

  26. Misappropriation Theory

  27. Multijurisdictional Disclosure System - MJDS

  28. National Association Of Securities Dealers - NASD

  29. National Best Bid and Offer - NBBO

  30. National Market System Plan - NMSP

  31. National Treatment

  32. NCUA-Insured Institution

  33. Nevada Corporation

  34. No-Shop Clause

  35. Non-Covered Security

  36. Non-Disclosure Agreement - NDA

  37. Non-Negotiable

  38. Non-Open Market

  39. Non-Resident

  40. Nonfeasance

  41. Nonresident Alien

  42. Notice Filing

  43. Novation

  44. Office Of Thrift Supervision - OTS

  45. Oil Pollution Act Of 1990

  46. Ombudsman

  47. Ontario Securities Commission - OSC

  48. Open-Market Transaction

  49. Option Schedule

  50. Options Backdating

  51. Options Clearing Corporation - OCC

  52. Order Protection Rule

  53. Organic Act of the Department of Labor

  54. Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board - OTCBB

  55. Patent

  56. Patent Reexamination

  57. Periodic Payment Plan Certificate

  58. Poop

  59. Power Of Attorney

  60. Power of Attorney of Property

  61. Pre-Syndicate Bid

  62. Preliminary Prospectus

  63. Preparer Tax Identification Number - PTIN

  64. Price Cap Regulation

  65. Primary Exchange

  66. Principal-Agent Relationship

  67. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act – PSLRA

  68. Pro-Tanto

  69. Promissory Estoppel

  70. Proxy Statement

  71. Prudent Investor Act

  72. Prudent Investor Rule

  73. Prudent-Person Rule

  74. Public Offering

  75. Pujo Committee

  76. Punitive Damages

  77. Qualified Domestic Relations Order - QDRO

  78. Qualified Institutional Buyer - QIB

  79. Quiet Filing

  80. Quiet Period

  81. Quiet Title Action

  82. Rate Of Return Regulation

  83. Recourse

  84. Registered Investment Advisor - RIA

  85. Registrar

  86. Regulation 9

  87. Regulation A

  88. Regulation AA

  89. Regulation B

  90. Regulation BB

  91. Regulation C

  92. Regulation CC

  93. Regulation D - Reg D

  94. Regulation DD

  95. Regulation E

  96. Regulation EE

  97. Regulation F

  98. Regulation Fair Disclosure - Reg FD

  99. Regulation G

  100. Regulation H

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